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<h1>As You Like It</h1>

<section id="dramatis-personae"><h2>Dramatis Personae</h2>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>DUKE SENIOR, living in banishment.</li>
  <li>DUKE FREDERICK, his brother, an usurper of his dominions.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="lords attending on the banished duke.">
  <li>AMIENS</li>
  <li>JAQUES</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>LE BEAU, a courtier attending upon Frederick.</li>
  <li>CHARLES, wrestler to Frederick.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="sons of Sir Rowland de Boys.">
  <li>OLIVER</li>
  <li>JAQUES</li>
  <li>ORLANDO</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="servants to Oliver.">
  <li>ADAM</li>
  <li>DENNIS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>TOUCHSTONE, a clown.</li>
  <li>SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a vicar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="shepherds.">
  <li>CORIN</li>
  <li>SILVIUS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>WILLIAM, a country fellow in love with Audrey.</li>
  <li>A person representing HYMEN. </li>
  <li>ROSALIND, daughter to the banished duke.</li>
  <li>CELIA, daughter to Frederick.</li>
  <li>PHEBE, a shepherdess.</li>
  <li>AUDREY, a country wench.</li>
  <li>Lords, pages, and attendants, &c.</li>
</ol>

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<div id="scene-description">SCENE  Oliver's house; Duke Frederick's court; and the Forest of Arden.</div>

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<section class="act">

<h2>ACT I</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Orchard of Oliver's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ORLANDO and ADAM</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion</li>
  <li>bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,</li>
  <li>and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his</li>
  <li>blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my</li>
  <li class="number">sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and</li>
  <li>report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part,</li>
  <li>he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more</li>
  <li>properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you</li>
  <li>that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that</li>
  <li class="number">differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses</li>
  <li>are bred better; for, besides that they are fair</li>
  <li>with their feeding, they are taught their manage,</li>
  <li>and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his</li>
  <li>brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the</li>
  <li class="number">which his animals on his dunghills are as much</li>
  <li>bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so</li>
  <li>plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave</li>
  <li>me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets</li>
  <li>me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a</li>
  <li class="number">brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my</li>
  <li>gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that</li>
  <li>grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I</li>
  <li>think is within me, begins to mutiny against this</li>
  <li>servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I</li>
  <li class="number">know no wise remedy how to avoid it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>Yonder comes my master, your brother.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will</li>
  <li>shake me up.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OLIVER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Now, sir! what make you here?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>What mar you then, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God</li>
  <li>made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them?</li>
  <li>What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should</li>
  <li>come to such penury?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Know you where your are, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>O, sir, very well; here in your orchard.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">Know you before whom, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know</li>
  <li>you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle</li>
  <li>condition of blood, you should so know me. The</li>
  <li>courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that</li>
  <li class="number">you are the first-born; but the same tradition</li>
  <li>takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers</li>
  <li>betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as</li>
  <li>you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is</li>
  <li>nearer to his reverence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">What, boy!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir</li>
  <li>Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice</li>
  <li class="number">a villain that says such a father begot villains.</li>
  <li>Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand</li>
  <li>from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy</li>
  <li>tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>Sweet masters, be patient: for your father's</li>
  <li class="number">remembrance, be at accord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Let me go, I say.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My</li>
  <li>father charged you in his will to give me good</li>
  <li>education: you have trained me like a peasant,</li>
  <li class="number">obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like</li>
  <li>qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in</li>
  <li>me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore allow</li>
  <li>me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or</li>
  <li>give me the poor allottery my father left me by</li>
  <li class="number">testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>And what wilt thou do? beg, when that is spent?</li>
  <li>Well, sir, get you in: I will not long be troubled</li>
  <li>with you; you shall have some part of your will: I</li>
  <li>pray you, leave me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Get you with him, you old dog.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my</li>
  <li>teeth in your service. God be with my old master!</li>
  <li>he would not have spoke such a word.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt ORLANDO and ADAM</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">Is it even so? begin you to grow upon me? I will</li>
  <li>physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand</li>
  <li>crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DENNIS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DENNIS</li>
  <li>Calls your worship?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Was not Charles, the duke's wrestler, here to speak with me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DENNIS</li>
  <li class="number">So please you, he is here at the door and importunes</li>
  <li>access to you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Call him in.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit DENNIS</li>
  <li>'Twill be a good way; and to-morrow the wrestling is.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CHARLES</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARLES</li>
  <li>Good morrow to your worship.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">Good Monsieur Charles, what's the new news at the</li>
  <li>new court?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARLES</li>
  <li>There's no news at the court, sir, but the old news:</li>
  <li>that is, the old duke is banished by his younger</li>
  <li>brother the new duke; and three or four loving lords</li>
  <li class="number">have put themselves into voluntary exile with him,</li>
  <li>whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke;</li>
  <li>therefore he gives them good leave to wander.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Can you tell if Rosalind, the duke's daughter, be</li>
  <li>banished with her father?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARLES</li>
  <li class="number">O, no; for the duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves</li>
  <li>her, being ever from their cradles bred together,</li>
  <li>that she would have followed her exile, or have died</li>
  <li>to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no</li>
  <li>less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter; and</li>
  <li class="number">never two ladies loved as they do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Where will the old duke live?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARLES</li>
  <li>They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and</li>
  <li>a many merry men with him; and there they live like</li>
  <li>the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young</li>
  <li class="number">gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time</li>
  <li>carelessly, as they did in the golden world.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARLES</li>
  <li>Marry, do I, sir; and I came to acquaint you with a</li>
  <li>matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand</li>
  <li class="number">that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition</li>
  <li>to come in disguised against me to try a fall.</li>
  <li>To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he that</li>
  <li>escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him</li>
  <li>well. Your brother is but young and tender; and,</li>
  <li class="number">for your love, I would be loath to foil him, as I</li>
  <li>must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore,</li>
  <li>out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you</li>
  <li>withal, that either you might stay him from his</li>
  <li>intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall</li>
  <li class="number">run into, in that it is a thing of his own search</li>
  <li>and altogether against my will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which</li>
  <li>thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had</li>
  <li>myself notice of my brother's purpose herein and</li>
  <li class="number">have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from</li>
  <li>it, but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles:</li>
  <li>it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full</li>
  <li>of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's</li>
  <li>good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against</li>
  <li class="number">me his natural brother: therefore use thy</li>
  <li>discretion; I had as lief thou didst break his neck</li>
  <li>as his finger. And thou wert best look to't; for if</li>
  <li>thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not</li>
  <li>mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise</li>
  <li class="number">against thee by poison, entrap thee by some</li>
  <li>treacherous device and never leave thee till he</li>
  <li>hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other;</li>
  <li>for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak</li>
  <li>it, there is not one so young and so villanous this</li>
  <li class="number">day living. I speak but brotherly of him; but</li>
  <li>should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must</li>
  <li>blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARLES</li>
  <li>I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come</li>
  <li>to-morrow, I'll give him his payment: if ever he go</li>
  <li class="number">alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more: and</li>
  <li>so God keep your worship!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Farewell, good Charles.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit CHARLES</li>
  <li>Now will I stir this gamester: I hope I shall see</li>
  <li>an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why,</li>
  <li class="number">hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle, never</li>
  <li>schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of</li>
  <li>all sorts enchantingly beloved, and indeed so much</li>
  <li>in the heart of the world, and especially of my own</li>
  <li>people, who best know him, that I am altogether</li>
  <li class="number">misprised: but it shall not be so long; this</li>
  <li>wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that</li>
  <li>I kindle the boy thither; which now I'll go about.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  Lawn before the Duke's palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CELIA and ROSALIND</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of;</li>
  <li>and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could</li>
  <li>teach me to forget a banished father, you must not</li>
  <li class="number">learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight</li>
  <li>that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father,</li>
  <li>had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou</li>
  <li>hadst been still with me, I could have taught my</li>
  <li class="number">love to take thy father for mine: so wouldst thou,</li>
  <li>if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously</li>
  <li>tempered as mine is to thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to</li>
  <li>rejoice in yours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is</li>
  <li>like to have: and, truly, when he dies, thou shalt</li>
  <li>be his heir, for what he hath taken away from thy</li>
  <li>father perforce, I will render thee again in</li>
  <li>affection; by mine honour, I will; and when I break</li>
  <li class="number">that oath, let me turn monster: therefore, my</li>
  <li>sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let</li>
  <li>me see; what think you of falling in love?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal: but</li>
  <li class="number">love no man in good earnest; nor no further in sport</li>
  <li>neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst</li>
  <li>in honour come off again.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>What shall be our sport, then?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from</li>
  <li class="number">her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I would we could do so, for her benefits are</li>
  <li>mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman</li>
  <li>doth most mistake in her gifts to women.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce</li>
  <li class="number">makes honest, and those that she makes honest she</li>
  <li>makes very ill-favouredly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to</li>
  <li>Nature's: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world,</li>
  <li>not in the lineaments of Nature.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter TOUCHSTONE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">No? when Nature hath made a fair creature, may she</li>
  <li>not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature</li>
  <li>hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not</li>
  <li>Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when</li>
  <li class="number">Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of</li>
  <li>Nature's wit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but</li>
  <li>Nature's; who perceiveth our natural wits too dull</li>
  <li>to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this</li>
  <li class="number">natural for our whetstone; for always the dulness of</li>
  <li>the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How now,</li>
  <li>wit! whither wander you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Mistress, you must come away to your father.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Were you made the messenger?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Where learned you that oath, fool?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they</li>
  <li>were good pancakes and swore by his honour the</li>
  <li>mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the</li>
  <li class="number">pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and</li>
  <li>yet was not the knight forsworn.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>How prove you that, in the great heap of your</li>
  <li>knowledge?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and</li>
  <li>swear by your beards that I am a knave.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>By our beards, if we had them, thou art.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>By my knavery, if I had it, then I were; but if you</li>
  <li>swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no</li>
  <li class="number">more was this knight swearing by his honour, for he</li>
  <li>never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away</li>
  <li>before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Prithee, who is't that thou meanest?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>One that old Frederick, your father, loves.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">My father's love is enough to honour him: enough!</li>
  <li>speak no more of him; you'll be whipped for taxation</li>
  <li>one of these days.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what</li>
  <li>wise men do foolishly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">By my troth, thou sayest true; for since the little</li>
  <li>wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery</li>
  <li>that wise men have makes a great show. Here comes</li>
  <li>Monsieur Le Beau.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>With his mouth full of news.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Then shall we be news-crammed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>All the better; we shall be the more marketable.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter LE BEAU</li>
  <li>Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau: what's the news?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li>Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Sport! of what colour?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li>What colour, madam! how shall I answer you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>As wit and fortune will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Or as the Destinies decree.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, if I keep not my rank —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Thou losest thy old smell.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li>You amaze me, ladies: I would have told you of good</li>
  <li>wrestling, which you have lost the sight of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>You tell us the manner of the wrestling.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li class="number">I will tell you the beginning; and, if it please</li>
  <li>your ladyships, you may see the end; for the best is</li>
  <li>yet to do; and here, where you are, they are coming</li>
  <li>to perform it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li class="number">There comes an old man and his three sons —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I could match this beginning with an old tale.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li>Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>With bills on their necks, 'Be it known unto all men</li>
  <li>by these presents.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li class="number">The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the</li>
  <li>duke's wrestler; which Charles in a moment threw him</li>
  <li>and broke three of his ribs, that there is little</li>
  <li>hope of life in him: so he served the second, and</li>
  <li>so the third. Yonder they lie; the poor old man,</li>
  <li class="number">their father, making such pitiful dole over them</li>
  <li>that all the beholders take his part with weeping.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Alas!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies</li>
  <li>have lost?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li class="number">Why, this that I speak of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is the first</li>
  <li>time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport</li>
  <li>for ladies.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Or I, I promise thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">But is there any else longs to see this broken music</li>
  <li>in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon</li>
  <li>rib-breaking? Shall we see this wrestling, cousin?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li>You must, if you stay here; for here is the place</li>
  <li>appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to</li>
  <li class="number">perform it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, ORLANDO,
CHARLES, and Attendants</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Come on: since the youth will not be entreated, his</li>
  <li>own peril on his forwardness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Is yonder the man?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li class="number">Even he, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Alas, he is too young! yet he looks successfully.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>How now, daughter and cousin! are you crept hither</li>
  <li>to see the wrestling?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li class="number">You will take little delight in it, I can tell you;</li>
  <li>there is such odds in the man. In pity of the</li>
  <li>challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he</li>
  <li>will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies; see if</li>
  <li>you can move him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Do so: I'll not be by.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li>Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I attend them with all respect and duty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">No, fair princess; he is the general challenger: I</li>
  <li>come but in, as others do, to try with him the</li>
  <li>strength of my youth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your</li>
  <li>years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's</li>
  <li class="number">strength: if you saw yourself with your eyes or</li>
  <li>knew yourself with your judgment, the fear of your</li>
  <li>adventure would counsel you to a more equal</li>
  <li>enterprise. We pray you, for your own sake, to</li>
  <li>embrace your own safety and give over this attempt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore</li>
  <li>be misprised: we will make it our suit to the duke</li>
  <li>that the wrestling might not go forward.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I beseech you, punish me not with your hard</li>
  <li>thoughts; wherein I confess me much guilty, to deny</li>
  <li class="number">so fair and excellent ladies any thing. But let</li>
  <li>your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my</li>
  <li>trial: wherein if I be foiled, there is but one</li>
  <li>shamed that was never gracious; if killed, but one</li>
  <li>dead that was willing to be so: I shall do my</li>
  <li class="number">friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me, the</li>
  <li>world no injury, for in it I have nothing; only in</li>
  <li>the world I fill up a place, which may be better</li>
  <li>supplied when I have made it empty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>The little strength that I have, I would it were with you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">And mine, to eke out hers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Fare you well: pray heaven I be deceived in you!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Your heart's desires be with you!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARLES</li>
  <li>Come, where is this young gallant that is so</li>
  <li>desirous to lie with his mother earth?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>You shall try but one fall.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CHARLES</li>
  <li>No, I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him</li>
  <li>to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him</li>
  <li>from a first.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">An you mean to mock me after, you should not have</li>
  <li>mocked me before: but come your ways.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Now Hercules be thy speed, young man!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I would I were invisible, to catch the strong</li>
  <li>fellow by the leg.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">They wrestle</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">O excellent young man!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who</li>
  <li>should down.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Shout. CHARLES is thrown</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>No more, no more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li class="number">How dost thou, Charles?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li>He cannot speak, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Bear him away. What is thy name, young man?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>I would thou hadst been son to some man else:</li>
  <li class="number">The world esteem'd thy father honourable,</li>
  <li>But I did find him still mine enemy:</li>
  <li>Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed,</li>
  <li>Hadst thou descended from another house.</li>
  <li>But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth:</li>
  <li class="number">I would thou hadst told me of another father.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK, train, and LE BEAU</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Were I my father, coz, would I do this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,</li>
  <li>His youngest son; and would not change that calling,</li>
  <li>To be adopted heir to Frederick.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,</li>
  <li>And all the world was of my father's mind:</li>
  <li>Had I before known this young man his son,</li>
  <li>I should have given him tears unto entreaties,</li>
  <li>Ere he should thus have ventured.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Gentle cousin,</li>
  <li>Let us go thank him and encourage him:</li>
  <li>My father's rough and envious disposition</li>
  <li>Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserved:</li>
  <li>If you do keep your promises in love</li>
  <li class="number">But justly, as you have exceeded all promise,</li>
  <li>Your mistress shall be happy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Gentleman,</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Giving him a chain from her neck</li>
  <li>Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune,</li>
  <li>That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.</li>
  <li class="number">Shall we go, coz?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts</li>
  <li>Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up</li>
  <li>Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes;</li>
  <li>I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?</li>
  <li>Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown</li>
  <li>More than your enemies.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Will you go, coz?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Have with you. Fare you well.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?</li>
  <li>I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.</li>
  <li>O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!</li>
  <li>Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter LE BEAU</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li class="number">Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you</li>
  <li>To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved</li>
  <li>High commendation, true applause and love,</li>
  <li>Yet such is now the duke's condition</li>
  <li>That he misconstrues all that you have done.</li>
  <li class="number">The duke is humorous; what he is indeed,</li>
  <li>More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell me this:</li>
  <li>Which of the two was daughter of the duke</li>
  <li>That here was at the wrestling?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LE BEAU</li>
  <li class="number">Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners;</li>
  <li>But yet indeed the lesser is his daughter</li>
  <li>The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,</li>
  <li>And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,</li>
  <li>To keep his daughter company; whose loves</li>
  <li class="number">Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.</li>
  <li>But I can tell you that of late this duke</li>
  <li>Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,</li>
  <li>Grounded upon no other argument</li>
  <li>But that the people praise her for her virtues</li>
  <li class="number">And pity her for her good father's sake;</li>
  <li>And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady</li>
  <li>Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well:</li>
  <li>Hereafter, in a better world than this,</li>
  <li>I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">I rest much bounden to you: fare you well.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit LE BEAU</li>
  <li>Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;</li>
  <li>From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother:</li>
  <li>But heavenly Rosalind!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  A room in the palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CELIA and ROSALIND</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Not one to throw at a dog.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon</li>
  <li>curs; throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one</li>
  <li>should be lamed with reasons and the other mad</li>
  <li>without any.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>But is all this for your father?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how</li>
  <li class="number">full of briers is this working-day world!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in</li>
  <li>holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden</li>
  <li>paths our very petticoats will catch them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Hem them away.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in</li>
  <li class="number">despite of a fall. But, turning these jests out of</li>
  <li>service, let us talk in good earnest: is it</li>
  <li>possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so</li>
  <li>strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>The duke my father loved his father dearly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son</li>
  <li>dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him,</li>
  <li>for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate</li>
  <li>not Orlando.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Let me love him for that, and do you love him</li>
  <li>because I do. Look, here comes the duke.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>With his eyes full of anger.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste</li>
  <li class="number">And get you from our court.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Me, uncle?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>You, cousin</li>
  <li>Within these ten days if that thou be'st found</li>
  <li>So near our public court as twenty miles,</li>
  <li class="number">Thou diest for it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I do beseech your grace,</li>
  <li>Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:</li>
  <li>If with myself I hold intelligence</li>
  <li>Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,</li>
  <li class="number">If that I do not dream or be not frantic —  </li>
  <li>As I do trust I am not — then, dear uncle,</li>
  <li>Never so much as in a thought unborn</li>
  <li>Did I offend your highness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Thus do all traitors:</li>
  <li class="number">If their purgation did consist in words,</li>
  <li>They are as innocent as grace itself:</li>
  <li>Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:</li>
  <li>Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li class="number">Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>So was I when your highness took his dukedom;</li>
  <li>So was I when your highness banish'd him:</li>
  <li>Treason is not inherited, my lord;</li>
  <li>Or, if we did derive it from our friends,</li>
  <li class="number">What's that to me? my father was no traitor:</li>
  <li>Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much</li>
  <li>To think my poverty is treacherous.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Dear sovereign, hear me speak.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,</li>
  <li class="number">Else had she with her father ranged along.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I did not then entreat to have her stay;</li>
  <li>It was your pleasure and your own remorse:</li>
  <li>I was too young that time to value her;</li>
  <li>But now I know her: if she be a traitor,</li>
  <li class="number">Why so am I; we still have slept together,</li>
  <li>Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,</li>
  <li>And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,</li>
  <li>Still we went coupled and inseparable.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,</li>
  <li class="number">Her very silence and her patience</li>
  <li>Speak to the people, and they pity her.</li>
  <li>Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name;</li>
  <li>And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous</li>
  <li>When she is gone. Then open not thy lips:</li>
  <li class="number">Firm and irrevocable is my doom</li>
  <li>Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege:</li>
  <li>I cannot live out of her company.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself:</li>
  <li class="number">If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,</li>
  <li>And in the greatness of my word, you die.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK and Lords</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?</li>
  <li>Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.</li>
  <li>I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">I have more cause.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Thou hast not, cousin;</li>
  <li>Prithee be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke</li>
  <li>Hath banish'd me, his daughter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>That he hath not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love</li>
  <li>Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one:</li>
  <li>Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl?</li>
  <li>No: let my father seek another heir.</li>
  <li>Therefore devise with me how we may fly,</li>
  <li class="number">Whither to go and what to bear with us;</li>
  <li>And do not seek to take your change upon you,</li>
  <li>To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out;</li>
  <li>For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,</li>
  <li>Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Why, whither shall we go?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Alas, what danger will it be to us,</li>
  <li>Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!</li>
  <li>Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">I'll put myself in poor and mean attire</li>
  <li>And with a kind of umber smirch my face;</li>
  <li>The like do you: so shall we pass along</li>
  <li>And never stir assailants.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Were it not better,</li>
  <li class="number">Because that I am more than common tall,</li>
  <li>That I did suit me all points like a man?</li>
  <li>A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,</li>
  <li>A boar-spear in my hand; and — in my heart</li>
  <li>Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will — </li>
  <li class="number">We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,</li>
  <li>As many other mannish cowards have</li>
  <li>That do outface it with their semblances.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>What shall I call thee when thou art a man?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page;</li>
  <li class="number">And therefore look you call me Ganymede.</li>
  <li>But what will you be call'd?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Something that hath a reference to my state</li>
  <li>No longer Celia, but Aliena.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal</li>
  <li class="number">The clownish fool out of your father's court?</li>
  <li>Would he not be a comfort to our travel?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>He'll go along o'er the wide world with me;</li>
  <li>Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,</li>
  <li>And get our jewels and our wealth together,</li>
  <li class="number">Devise the fittest time and safest way</li>
  <li>To hide us from pursuit that will be made</li>
  <li>After my flight. Now go we in content</li>
  <li>To liberty and not to banishment.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT II</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  The Forest of Arden.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords,
like foresters</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,</li>
  <li>Hath not old custom made this life more sweet</li>
  <li>Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods</li>
  <li>More free from peril than the envious court?</li>
  <li class="number">Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,</li>
  <li>The seasons' difference, as the icy fang</li>
  <li>And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,</li>
  <li>Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,</li>
  <li>Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say</li>
  <li class="number">'This is no flattery: these are counsellors</li>
  <li>That feelingly persuade me what I am.'</li>
  <li>Sweet are the uses of adversity,</li>
  <li>Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,</li>
  <li>Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;</li>
  <li class="number">And this our life exempt from public haunt</li>
  <li>Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,</li>
  <li>Sermons in stones and good in every thing.</li>
  <li>I would not change it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>Happy is your grace,</li>
  <li class="number">That can translate the stubbornness of fortune</li>
  <li>Into so quiet and so sweet a style.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Come, shall we go and kill us venison?</li>
  <li>And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,</li>
  <li>Being native burghers of this desert city,</li>
  <li class="number">Should in their own confines with forked heads</li>
  <li>Have their round haunches gored.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Lord</li>
  <li>Indeed, my lord,</li>
  <li>The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,</li>
  <li>And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp</li>
  <li class="number">Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you.</li>
  <li>To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself</li>
  <li>Did steal behind him as he lay along</li>
  <li>Under an oak whose antique root peeps out</li>
  <li>Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:</li>
  <li class="number">To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,</li>
  <li>That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,</li>
  <li>Did come to languish, and indeed, my lord,</li>
  <li>The wretched animal heaved forth such groans</li>
  <li>That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat</li>
  <li class="number">Almost to bursting, and the big round tears</li>
  <li>Coursed one another down his innocent nose</li>
  <li>In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool</li>
  <li>Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,</li>
  <li>Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook,</li>
  <li class="number">Augmenting it with tears.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>But what said Jaques?</li>
  <li>Did he not moralize this spectacle?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Lord</li>
  <li>O, yes, into a thousand similes.</li>
  <li>First, for his weeping into the needless stream;</li>
  <li class="number">'Poor deer,' quoth he, 'thou makest a testament</li>
  <li>As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more</li>
  <li>To that which had too much:' then, being there alone,</li>
  <li>Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends,</li>
  <li>''Tis right:' quoth he; 'thus misery doth part</li>
  <li class="number">The flux of company:' anon a careless herd,</li>
  <li>Full of the pasture, jumps along by him</li>
  <li>And never stays to greet him; 'Ay' quoth Jaques,</li>
  <li>'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;</li>
  <li>'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look</li>
  <li class="number">Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'</li>
  <li>Thus most invectively he pierceth through</li>
  <li>The body of the country, city, court,</li>
  <li>Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we</li>
  <li>Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse,</li>
  <li class="number">To fright the animals and to kill them up</li>
  <li>In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>And did you leave him in this contemplation?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Lord</li>
  <li>We did, my lord, weeping and commenting</li>
  <li>Upon the sobbing deer.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">Show me the place:</li>
  <li>I love to cope him in these sullen fits,</li>
  <li>For then he's full of matter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Lord</li>
  <li>I'll bring you to him straight.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  A room in the palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Can it be possible that no man saw them?</li>
  <li>It cannot be: some villains of my court</li>
  <li>Are of consent and sufferance in this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Lord</li>
  <li>I cannot hear of any that did see her.</li>
  <li class="number">The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,</li>
  <li>Saw her abed, and in the morning early</li>
  <li>They found the bed untreasured of their mistress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Lord</li>
  <li>My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft</li>
  <li>Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.</li>
  <li class="number">Hisperia, the princess' gentlewoman,</li>
  <li>Confesses that she secretly o'erheard</li>
  <li>Your daughter and her cousin much commend</li>
  <li>The parts and graces of the wrestler</li>
  <li>That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;</li>
  <li class="number">And she believes, wherever they are gone,</li>
  <li>That youth is surely in their company.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;</li>
  <li>If he be absent, bring his brother to me;</li>
  <li>I'll make him find him: do this suddenly,</li>
  <li class="number">And let not search and inquisition quail</li>
  <li>To bring again these foolish runaways.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  Before OLIVER'S house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Who's there?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>What, my young master? O, my gentle master!</li>
  <li>O my sweet master! O you memory</li>
  <li>Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here?</li>
  <li class="number">Why are you virtuous? why do people love you?</li>
  <li>And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant?</li>
  <li>Why would you be so fond to overcome</li>
  <li>The bonny priser of the humorous duke?</li>
  <li>Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.</li>
  <li class="number">Know you not, master, to some kind of men</li>
  <li>Their graces serve them but as enemies?</li>
  <li>No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master,</li>
  <li>Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.</li>
  <li>O, what a world is this, when what is comely</li>
  <li class="number">Envenoms him that bears it!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Why, what's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>O unhappy youth!</li>
  <li>Come not within these doors; within this roof</li>
  <li>The enemy of all your graces lives:</li>
  <li class="number">Your brother — no, no brother; yet the son — </li>
  <li>Yet not the son, I will not call him son</li>
  <li>Of him I was about to call his father — </li>
  <li>Hath heard your praises, and this night he means</li>
  <li>To burn the lodging where you use to lie</li>
  <li class="number">And you within it: if he fail of that,</li>
  <li>He will have other means to cut you off.</li>
  <li>I overheard him and his practises.</li>
  <li>This is no place; this house is but a butchery:</li>
  <li>Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>No matter whither, so you come not here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?</li>
  <li>Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce</li>
  <li>A thievish living on the common road?</li>
  <li class="number">This I must do, or know not what to do:</li>
  <li>Yet this I will not do, do how I can;</li>
  <li>I rather will subject me to the malice</li>
  <li>Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,</li>
  <li class="number">The thrifty hire I saved under your father,</li>
  <li>Which I did store to be my foster-nurse</li>
  <li>When service should in my old limbs lie lame</li>
  <li>And unregarded age in corners thrown:</li>
  <li>Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,</li>
  <li class="number">Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,</li>
  <li>Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;</li>
  <li>And all this I give you. Let me be your servant:</li>
  <li>Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;</li>
  <li>For in my youth I never did apply</li>
  <li class="number">Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,</li>
  <li>Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo</li>
  <li>The means of weakness and debility;</li>
  <li>Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,</li>
  <li>Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you;</li>
  <li class="number">I'll do the service of a younger man</li>
  <li>In all your business and necessities.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>O good old man, how well in thee appears</li>
  <li>The constant service of the antique world,</li>
  <li>When service sweat for duty, not for meed!</li>
  <li class="number">Thou art not for the fashion of these times,</li>
  <li>Where none will sweat but for promotion,</li>
  <li>And having that, do choke their service up</li>
  <li>Even with the having: it is not so with thee.</li>
  <li>But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,</li>
  <li class="number">That cannot so much as a blossom yield</li>
  <li>In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry</li>
  <li>But come thy ways; well go along together,</li>
  <li>And ere we have thy youthful wages spent,</li>
  <li>We'll light upon some settled low content.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li class="number">Master, go on, and I will follow thee,</li>
  <li>To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.</li>
  <li>From seventeen years till now almost fourscore</li>
  <li>Here lived I, but now live here no more.</li>
  <li>At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;</li>
  <li class="number">But at fourscore it is too late a week:</li>
  <li>Yet fortune cannot recompense me better</li>
  <li>Than to die well and not my master's debtor.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  The Forest of Arden.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ROSALIND for Ganymede, CELIA for Aliena,
and TOUCHSTONE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's</li>
  <li>apparel and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort</li>
  <li class="number">the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show</li>
  <li>itself courageous to petticoat: therefore courage,</li>
  <li>good Aliena!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I pray you, bear with me; I cannot go no further.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear</li>
  <li class="number">you; yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you,</li>
  <li>for I think you have no money in your purse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Well, this is the forest of Arden.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was</li>
  <li>at home, I was in a better place: but travellers</li>
  <li class="number">must be content.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Ay, be so, good Touchstone.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter CORIN and SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Look you, who comes here; a young man and an old in</li>
  <li>solemn talk.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>That is the way to make her scorn you still.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>I partly guess; for I have loved ere now.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,</li>
  <li>Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover</li>
  <li>As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow:</li>
  <li class="number">But if thy love were ever like to mine — </li>
  <li>As sure I think did never man love so — </li>
  <li>How many actions most ridiculous</li>
  <li>Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Into a thousand that I have forgotten.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily!</li>
  <li>If thou remember'st not the slightest folly</li>
  <li>That ever love did make thee run into,</li>
  <li>Thou hast not loved:</li>
  <li>Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,</li>
  <li class="number">Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,</li>
  <li>Thou hast not loved:</li>
  <li>Or if thou hast not broke from company</li>
  <li>Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,</li>
  <li>Thou hast not loved.</li>
  <li class="number">O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,</li>
  <li>I have by hard adventure found mine own.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>And I mine. I remember, when I was in love I broke</li>
  <li>my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for</li>
  <li class="number">coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the</li>
  <li>kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her</li>
  <li>pretty chopt hands had milked; and I remember the</li>
  <li>wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took</li>
  <li>two cods and, giving her them again, said with</li>
  <li class="number">weeping tears 'Wear these for my sake.' We that are</li>
  <li>true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is</li>
  <li>mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I</li>
  <li class="number">break my shins against it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion</li>
  <li>Is much upon my fashion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>And mine; but it grows something stale with me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I pray you, one of you question yond man</li>
  <li class="number">If he for gold will give us any food:</li>
  <li>I faint almost to death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Holla, you clown!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Peace, fool: he's not thy kinsman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Who calls?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Your betters, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Else are they very wretched.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold</li>
  <li class="number">Can in this desert place buy entertainment,</li>
  <li>Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed:</li>
  <li>Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd</li>
  <li>And faints for succor.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Fair sir, I pity her</li>
  <li class="number">And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,</li>
  <li>My fortunes were more able to relieve her;</li>
  <li>But I am shepherd to another man</li>
  <li>And do not shear the fleeces that I graze:</li>
  <li>My master is of churlish disposition</li>
  <li class="number">And little recks to find the way to heaven</li>
  <li>By doing deeds of hospitality:</li>
  <li>Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed</li>
  <li>Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now,</li>
  <li>By reason of his absence, there is nothing</li>
  <li class="number">That you will feed on; but what is, come see.</li>
  <li>And in my voice most welcome shall you be.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,</li>
  <li>That little cares for buying any thing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,</li>
  <li>Buy thou the cottage, pasture and the flock,</li>
  <li>And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>And we will mend thy wages. I like this place.</li>
  <li>And willingly could waste my time in it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li class="number">Assuredly the thing is to be sold:</li>
  <li>Go with me: if you like upon report</li>
  <li>The soil, the profit and this kind of life,</li>
  <li>I will your very faithful feeder be</li>
  <li>And buy it with your gold right suddenly.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  The Forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and others</div>

<h4 class="scene-subhead">SONG.</h4>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>Under the greenwood tree</li>
  <li>Who loves to lie with me,</li>
  <li>And turn his merry note</li>
  <li>Unto the sweet bird's throat,</li>
  <li class="number">Come hither, come hither, come hither:</li>
  <li>Here shall he see No enemy</li>
  <li>But winter and rough weather.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>More, more, I prithee, more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck</li>
  <li>melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.</li>
  <li>More, I prithee, more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to</li>
  <li class="number">sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>What you will, Monsieur Jaques.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me</li>
  <li>nothing. Will you sing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>More at your request than to please myself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you;</li>
  <li>but that they call compliment is like the encounter</li>
  <li>of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily,</li>
  <li>methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me</li>
  <li>the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will</li>
  <li class="number">not, hold your tongues.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the</li>
  <li>duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all</li>
  <li>this day to look you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is</li>
  <li class="number">too disputable for my company: I think of as many</li>
  <li>matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make no</li>
  <li>boast of them. Come, warble, come.</li>
  <li class="subhead">SONG.</li>
  <li>Who doth ambition shun</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">All together here</li>
  <li>And loves to live i' the sun,</li>
  <li class="number">Seeking the food he eats</li>
  <li>And pleased with what he gets,</li>
  <li>Come hither, come hither, come hither:</li>
  <li>Here shall he see No enemy</li>
  <li>But winter and rough weather.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">I'll give you a verse to this note that I made</li>
  <li>yesterday in despite of my invention.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>And I'll sing it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Thus it goes: — </li>
  <li>If it do come to pass</li>
  <li class="number">That any man turn ass,</li>
  <li>Leaving his wealth and ease,</li>
  <li>A stubborn will to please,</li>
  <li>Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:</li>
  <li>Here shall he see</li>
  <li class="number">Gross fools as he,</li>
  <li>An if he will come to me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>What's that 'ducdame'?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a</li>
  <li>circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll</li>
  <li class="number">rail against all the first-born of Egypt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is prepared.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt severally</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VI.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ORLANDO and ADAM</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food!</li>
  <li>Here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell,</li>
  <li>kind master.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live</li>
  <li class="number">a little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little.</li>
  <li>If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I</li>
  <li>will either be food for it or bring it for food to</li>
  <li>thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers.</li>
  <li>For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at</li>
  <li class="number">the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently;</li>
  <li>and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will</li>
  <li>give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I</li>
  <li>come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!</li>
  <li>thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly.</li>
  <li class="number">Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear</li>
  <li>thee to some shelter; and thou shalt not die for</li>
  <li>lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this</li>
  <li>desert. Cheerly, good Adam!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE VII.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">A table set out. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and
Lords like outlaws</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>I think he be transform'd into a beast;</li>
  <li>For I can no where find him like a man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Lord</li>
  <li>My lord, he is but even now gone hence:</li>
  <li>Here was he merry, hearing of a song.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">If he, compact of jars, grow musical,</li>
  <li>We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.</li>
  <li>Go, seek him: tell him I would speak with him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter JAQUES</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Lord</li>
  <li>He saves my labour by his own approach.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Why, how now, monsieur! what a life is this,</li>
  <li class="number">That your poor friends must woo your company?</li>
  <li>What, you look merrily!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,</li>
  <li>A motley fool; a miserable world!</li>
  <li>As I do live by food, I met a fool</li>
  <li class="number">Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,</li>
  <li>And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,</li>
  <li>In good set terms and yet a motley fool.</li>
  <li>'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he,</li>
  <li>'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune:'</li>
  <li class="number">And then he drew a dial from his poke,</li>
  <li>And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,</li>
  <li>Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:</li>
  <li>Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:</li>
  <li>'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,</li>
  <li class="number">And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;</li>
  <li>And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,</li>
  <li>And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;</li>
  <li>And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear</li>
  <li>The motley fool thus moral on the time,</li>
  <li class="number">My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,</li>
  <li>That fools should be so deep-contemplative,</li>
  <li>And I did laugh sans intermission</li>
  <li>An hour by his dial. O noble fool!</li>
  <li>A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">What fool is this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,</li>
  <li>And says, if ladies be but young and fair,</li>
  <li>They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,</li>
  <li>Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit</li>
  <li class="number">After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd</li>
  <li>With observation, the which he vents</li>
  <li>In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!</li>
  <li>I am ambitious for a motley coat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Thou shalt have one.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">It is my only suit;</li>
  <li>Provided that you weed your better judgments</li>
  <li>Of all opinion that grows rank in them</li>
  <li>That I am wise. I must have liberty</li>
  <li>Withal, as large a charter as the wind,</li>
  <li class="number">To blow on whom I please; for so fools have;</li>
  <li>And they that are most galled with my folly,</li>
  <li>They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?</li>
  <li>The 'why' is plain as way to parish church:</li>
  <li>He that a fool doth very wisely hit</li>
  <li class="number">Doth very foolishly, although he smart,</li>
  <li>Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not,</li>
  <li>The wise man's folly is anatomized</li>
  <li>Even by the squandering glances of the fool.</li>
  <li>Invest me in my motley; give me leave</li>
  <li class="number">To speak my mind, and I will through and through</li>
  <li>Cleanse the foul body of the infected world,</li>
  <li>If they will patiently receive my medicine.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>What, for a counter, would I do but good?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:</li>
  <li>For thou thyself hast been a libertine,</li>
  <li>As sensual as the brutish sting itself;</li>
  <li>And all the embossed sores and headed evils,</li>
  <li>That thou with licence of free foot hast caught,</li>
  <li class="number">Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Why, who cries out on pride,</li>
  <li>That can therein tax any private party?</li>
  <li>Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,</li>
  <li>Till that the weary very means do ebb?</li>
  <li class="number">What woman in the city do I name,</li>
  <li>When that I say the city-woman bears</li>
  <li>The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?</li>
  <li>Who can come in and say that I mean her,</li>
  <li>When such a one as she such is her neighbour?</li>
  <li class="number">Or what is he of basest function</li>
  <li>That says his bravery is not of my cost,</li>
  <li>Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits</li>
  <li>His folly to the mettle of my speech?</li>
  <li>There then; how then? what then? Let me see wherein</li>
  <li class="number">My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right,</li>
  <li>Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free,</li>
  <li>Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies,</li>
  <li>Unclaim'd of any man. But who comes here?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Forbear, and eat no more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">Why, I have eat none yet.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Nor shalt not, till necessity be served.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Of what kind should this cock come of?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress,</li>
  <li>Or else a rude despiser of good manners,</li>
  <li class="number">That in civility thou seem'st so empty?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point</li>
  <li>Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show</li>
  <li>Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred</li>
  <li>And know some nurture. But forbear, I say:</li>
  <li class="number">He dies that touches any of this fruit</li>
  <li>Till I and my affairs are answered.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>An you will not be answered with reason, I must die.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>What would you have? Your gentleness shall force</li>
  <li>More than your force move us to gentleness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">I almost die for food; and let me have it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you:</li>
  <li>I thought that all things had been savage here;</li>
  <li>And therefore put I on the countenance</li>
  <li class="number">Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are</li>
  <li>That in this desert inaccessible,</li>
  <li>Under the shade of melancholy boughs,</li>
  <li>Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time</li>
  <li>If ever you have look'd on better days,</li>
  <li class="number">If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,</li>
  <li>If ever sat at any good man's feast,</li>
  <li>If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear</li>
  <li>And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied,</li>
  <li>Let gentleness my strong enforcement be:</li>
  <li class="number">In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>True is it that we have seen better days,</li>
  <li>And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church</li>
  <li>And sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes</li>
  <li>Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd:</li>
  <li class="number">And therefore sit you down in gentleness</li>
  <li>And take upon command what help we have</li>
  <li>That to your wanting may be minister'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Then but forbear your food a little while,</li>
  <li>Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn</li>
  <li class="number">And give it food. There is an old poor man,</li>
  <li>Who after me hath many a weary step</li>
  <li>Limp'd in pure love: till he be first sufficed,</li>
  <li>Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,</li>
  <li>I will not touch a bit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">Go find him out,</li>
  <li>And we will nothing waste till you return.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I thank ye; and be blest for your good comfort!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:</li>
  <li>This wide and universal theatre</li>
  <li class="number">Presents more woeful pageants than the scene</li>
  <li>Wherein we play in.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>All the world's a stage,</li>
  <li>And all the men and women merely players:</li>
  <li>They have their exits and their entrances;</li>
  <li class="number">And one man in his time plays many parts,</li>
  <li>His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,</li>
  <li>Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.</li>
  <li>And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel</li>
  <li>And shining morning face, creeping like snail</li>
  <li class="number">Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,</li>
  <li>Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad</li>
  <li>Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,</li>
  <li>Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,</li>
  <li>Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,</li>
  <li class="number">Seeking the bubble reputation</li>
  <li>Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,</li>
  <li>In fair round belly with good capon lined,</li>
  <li>With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,</li>
  <li>Full of wise saws and modern instances;</li>
  <li class="number">And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts</li>
  <li>Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,</li>
  <li>With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,</li>
  <li>His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide</li>
  <li>For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,</li>
  <li class="number">Turning again toward childish treble, pipes</li>
  <li>And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,</li>
  <li>That ends this strange eventful history,</li>
  <li>Is second childishness and mere oblivion,</li>
  <li>Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter ORLANDO, with ADAM</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">Welcome. Set down your venerable burthen,</li>
  <li>And let him feed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I thank you most for him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ADAM</li>
  <li>So had you need:</li>
  <li>I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">Welcome; fall to: I will not trouble you</li>
  <li>As yet, to question you about your fortunes.</li>
  <li>Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing.</li>
</ol>

<h4 class="scene-subhead">SONG.</h4>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AMIENS</li>
  <li>Blow, blow, thou winter wind.</li>
  <li>Thou art not so unkind</li>
  <li class="number">As man's ingratitude;</li>
  <li>Thy tooth is not so keen,</li>
  <li>Because thou art not seen,</li>
  <li>Although thy breath be rude.</li>
  <li>Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:</li>
  <li class="number">Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:</li>
  <li>Then, heigh-ho, the holly!</li>
  <li>This life is most jolly.</li>
  <li>Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,</li>
  <li>That dost not bite so nigh</li>
  <li class="number">As benefits forgot:</li>
  <li>Though thou the waters warp,</li>
  <li>Thy sting is not so sharp</li>
  <li>As friend remember'd not.</li>
  <li>Heigh-ho! sing, etc..</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,</li>
  <li>As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,</li>
  <li>And as mine eye doth his effigies witness</li>
  <li>Most truly limn'd and living in your face,</li>
  <li>Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke</li>
  <li class="number">That loved your father: the residue of your fortune,</li>
  <li>Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man,</li>
  <li>Thou art right welcome as thy master is.</li>
  <li>Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,</li>
  <li>And let me all your fortunes understand.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT III</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  A room in the palace.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and OLIVER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li>Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be:</li>
  <li>But were I not the better part made mercy,</li>
  <li>I should not seek an absent argument</li>
  <li>Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:</li>
  <li class="number">Find out thy brother, wheresoe'er he is;</li>
  <li>Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living</li>
  <li>Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more</li>
  <li>To seek a living in our territory.</li>
  <li>Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine</li>
  <li class="number">Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,</li>
  <li>Till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth</li>
  <li>Of what we think against thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>O that your highness knew my heart in this!</li>
  <li>I never loved my brother in my life.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE FREDERICK</li>
  <li class="number">More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors;</li>
  <li>And let my officers of such a nature</li>
  <li>Make an extent upon his house and lands:</li>
  <li>Do this expediently and turn him going.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ORLANDO, with a paper</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love:</li>
  <li>And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey</li>
  <li>With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,</li>
  <li>Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway.</li>
  <li class="number">O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books</li>
  <li>And in their barks my thoughts I'll character;</li>
  <li>That every eye which in this forest looks</li>
  <li>Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.</li>
  <li>Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree</li>
  <li class="number">The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good</li>
  <li>life, but in respect that it is a shepherd's life,</li>
  <li>it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I</li>
  <li class="number">like it very well; but in respect that it is</li>
  <li>private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it</li>
  <li>is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in</li>
  <li>respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As</li>
  <li>is it a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well;</li>
  <li class="number">but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much</li>
  <li>against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>No more but that I know the more one sickens the</li>
  <li>worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money,</li>
  <li>means and content is without three good friends;</li>
  <li class="number">that the property of rain is to wet and fire to</li>
  <li>burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a</li>
  <li>great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that</li>
  <li>he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may</li>
  <li>complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in</li>
  <li>court, shepherd?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>No, truly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Then thou art damned.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Nay, I hope.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all</li>
  <li>on one side.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>For not being at court? Your reason.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest</li>
  <li>good manners; if thou never sawest good manners,</li>
  <li class="number">then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is</li>
  <li>sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous</li>
  <li>state, shepherd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners</li>
  <li>at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the</li>
  <li class="number">behavior of the country is most mockable at the</li>
  <li>court. You told me you salute not at the court, but</li>
  <li>you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be</li>
  <li>uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Instance, briefly; come, instance.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li class="number">Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their</li>
  <li>fells, you know, are greasy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? and is not</li>
  <li>the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of</li>
  <li>a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I say; come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li class="number">Besides, our hands are hard.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again.</li>
  <li>A more sounder instance, come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>And they are often tarred over with the surgery of</li>
  <li>our sheep: and would you have us kiss tar? The</li>
  <li class="number">courtier's hands are perfumed with civet.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Most shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect of a</li>
  <li>good piece of flesh indeed! Learn of the wise, and</li>
  <li>perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the</li>
  <li>very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li class="number">You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man!</li>
  <li>God make incision in thee! thou art raw.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get</li>
  <li>that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's</li>
  <li class="number">happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my</li>
  <li>harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes</li>
  <li>graze and my lambs suck.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes</li>
  <li>and the rams together and to offer to get your</li>
  <li class="number">living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a</li>
  <li>bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a</li>
  <li>twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram,</li>
  <li>out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not</li>
  <li>damned for this, the devil himself will have no</li>
  <li class="number">shepherds; I cannot see else how thou shouldst</li>
  <li>'scape.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ROSALIND, with a paper, reading</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>From the east to western Ind,</li>
  <li>No jewel is like Rosalind.</li>
  <li class="number">Her worth, being mounted on the wind,</li>
  <li>Through all the world bears Rosalind.</li>
  <li>All the pictures fairest lined</li>
  <li>Are but black to Rosalind.</li>
  <li>Let no fair be kept in mind</li>
  <li class="number">But the fair of Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and</li>
  <li>suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is the</li>
  <li>right butter-women's rank to market.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Out, fool!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">For a taste:</li>
  <li>If a hart do lack a hind,</li>
  <li>Let him seek out Rosalind.</li>
  <li>If the cat will after kind,</li>
  <li>So be sure will Rosalind.</li>
  <li class="number">Winter garments must be lined,</li>
  <li>So must slender Rosalind.</li>
  <li>They that reap must sheaf and bind;</li>
  <li>Then to cart with Rosalind.</li>
  <li>Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,</li>
  <li class="number">Such a nut is Rosalind.</li>
  <li>He that sweetest rose will find</li>
  <li>Must find love's prick and Rosalind.</li>
  <li>This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you</li>
  <li>infect yourself with them?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it</li>
  <li>with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit</li>
  <li>i' the country; for you'll be rotten ere you be half</li>
  <li class="number">ripe, and that's the right virtue of the medlar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the</li>
  <li>forest judge.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CELIA, with a writing</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Peace! Here comes my sister, reading: stand aside.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Reads</li>
  <li class="number">Why should this a desert be?</li>
  <li>For it is unpeopled? No:</li>
  <li>Tongues I'll hang on every tree,</li>
  <li>That shall civil sayings show:</li>
  <li>Some, how brief the life of man</li>
  <li class="number">Runs his erring pilgrimage,</li>
  <li>That the stretching of a span</li>
  <li>Buckles in his sum of age;</li>
  <li>Some, of violated vows</li>
  <li>'Twixt the souls of friend and friend:</li>
  <li class="number">But upon the fairest boughs,</li>
  <li>Or at every sentence end,</li>
  <li>Will I Rosalinda write,</li>
  <li>Teaching all that read to know</li>
  <li>The quintessence of every sprite</li>
  <li class="number">Heaven would in little show.</li>
  <li>Therefore Heaven Nature charged</li>
  <li>That one body should be fill'd</li>
  <li>With all graces wide-enlarged:</li>
  <li>Nature presently distill'd</li>
  <li class="number">Helen's cheek, but not her heart,</li>
  <li>Cleopatra's majesty,</li>
  <li>Atalanta's better part,</li>
  <li>Sad Lucretia's modesty.</li>
  <li>Thus Rosalind of many parts</li>
  <li class="number">By heavenly synod was devised,</li>
  <li>Of many faces, eyes and hearts,</li>
  <li>To have the touches dearest prized.</li>
  <li>Heaven would that she these gifts should have,</li>
  <li>And I to live and die her slave.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love</li>
  <li>have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never</li>
  <li>cried 'Have patience, good people!'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>How now! back, friends! Shepherd, go off a little.</li>
  <li>Go with him, sirrah.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat;</li>
  <li>though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt CORIN and TOUCHSTONE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Didst thou hear these verses?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of</li>
  <li>them had in them more feet than the verses would bear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Ay, but the feet were lame and could not bear</li>
  <li>themselves without the verse and therefore stood</li>
  <li>lamely in the verse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name</li>
  <li class="number">should be hanged and carved upon these trees?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder</li>
  <li>before you came; for look here what I found on a</li>
  <li>palm-tree. I was never so be-rhymed since</li>
  <li>Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I</li>
  <li class="number">can hardly remember.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Trow you who hath done this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Is it a man?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck.</li>
  <li>Change you colour?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">I prithee, who?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to</li>
  <li>meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes</li>
  <li>and so encounter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Nay, but who is it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Is it possible?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary vehemence,</li>
  <li>tell me who it is.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful</li>
  <li>wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that,</li>
  <li class="number">out of all hooping!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am</li>
  <li>caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and hose in</li>
  <li>my disposition? One inch of delay more is a</li>
  <li>South-sea of discovery; I prithee, tell me who is it</li>
  <li class="number">quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst</li>
  <li>stammer, that thou mightst pour this concealed man</li>
  <li>out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-</li>
  <li>mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at</li>
  <li>all. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth that</li>
  <li class="number">may drink thy tidings.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>So you may put a man in your belly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Is he of God's making? What manner of man? Is his</li>
  <li>head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Nay, he hath but a little beard.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Why, God will send more, if the man will be</li>
  <li>thankful: let me stay the growth of his beard, if</li>
  <li>thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler's</li>
  <li>heels and your heart both in an instant.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, but the devil take mocking: speak, sad brow and</li>
  <li>true maid.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I' faith, coz, 'tis he.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Orlando?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Orlando.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and</li>
  <li>hose? What did he when thou sawest him? What said</li>
  <li>he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes</li>
  <li>him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he?</li>
  <li>How parted he with thee? and when shalt thou see</li>
  <li class="number">him again? Answer me in one word.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first: 'tis a</li>
  <li>word too great for any mouth of this age's size. To</li>
  <li>say ay and no to these particulars is more than to</li>
  <li>answer in a catechism.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">But doth he know that I am in this forest and in</li>
  <li>man's apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the</li>
  <li>day he wrestled?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the</li>
  <li>propositions of a lover; but take a taste of my</li>
  <li class="number">finding him, and relish it with good observance.</li>
  <li>I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>It may well be called Jove's tree, when it drops</li>
  <li>forth such fruit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Give me audience, good madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Proceed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>There lay he, stretched along, like a wounded knight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well</li>
  <li>becomes the ground.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Cry 'holla' to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets</li>
  <li class="number">unseasonably. He was furnished like a hunter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I would sing my song without a burden: thou bringest</li>
  <li>me out of tune.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must</li>
  <li class="number">speak. Sweet, say on.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ORLANDO and JAQUES</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>'Tis he: slink by, and note him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had</li>
  <li>as lief have been myself alone.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">And so had I; but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you</li>
  <li>too for your society.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we can.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I do desire we may be better strangers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>I pray you, mar no more trees with writing</li>
  <li class="number">love-songs in their barks.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading</li>
  <li>them ill-favouredly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Rosalind is your love's name?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Yes, just.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">I do not like her name.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>There was no thought of pleasing you when she was</li>
  <li>christened.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>What stature is she of?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Just as high as my heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been</li>
  <li>acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them</li>
  <li>out of rings?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from</li>
  <li>whence you have studied your questions.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of</li>
  <li>Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me? and</li>
  <li>we two will rail against our mistress the world and</li>
  <li>all our misery.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I will chide no breather in the world but myself,</li>
  <li class="number">against whom I know most faults.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>The worst fault you have is to be in love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue.</li>
  <li>I am weary of you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found</li>
  <li class="number">you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you</li>
  <li>shall see him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>There I shall see mine own figure.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">I'll tarry no longer with you: farewell, good</li>
  <li>Signior Love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur</li>
  <li>Melancholy.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit JAQUES</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Aside to CELIA  I will speak to him, like a saucy</li>
  <li class="number">lackey and under that habit play the knave with him.</li>
  <li>Do you hear, forester?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Very well: what would you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I pray you, what is't o'clock?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>You should ask me what time o' day: there's no clock</li>
  <li class="number">in the forest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Then there is no true lover in the forest; else</li>
  <li>sighing every minute and groaning every hour would</li>
  <li>detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>And why not the swift foot of Time? had not that</li>
  <li class="number">been as proper?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>By no means, sir: Time travels in divers paces with</li>
  <li>divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles</li>
  <li>withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops</li>
  <li>withal and who he stands still withal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">I prithee, who doth he trot withal?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the</li>
  <li>contract of her marriage and the day it is</li>
  <li>solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight,</li>
  <li>Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of</li>
  <li class="number">seven year.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Who ambles Time withal?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that</li>
  <li>hath not the gout, for the one sleeps easily because</li>
  <li>he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because</li>
  <li class="number">he feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean</li>
  <li>and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden</li>
  <li>of heavy tedious penury; these Time ambles withal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Who doth he gallop withal?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>With a thief to the gallows, for though he go as</li>
  <li class="number">softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Who stays it still withal?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>With lawyers in the vacation, for they sleep between</li>
  <li>term and term and then they perceive not how Time moves.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Where dwell you, pretty youth?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the</li>
  <li>skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Are you native of this place?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>As the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Your accent is something finer than you could</li>
  <li class="number">purchase in so removed a dwelling.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I have been told so of many: but indeed an old</li>
  <li>religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was</li>
  <li>in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship</li>
  <li>too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard</li>
  <li class="number">him read many lectures against it, and I thank God</li>
  <li>I am not a woman, to be touched with so many</li>
  <li>giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their</li>
  <li>whole sex withal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Can you remember any of the principal evils that he</li>
  <li class="number">laid to the charge of women?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>There were none principal; they were all like one</li>
  <li>another as half-pence are, every one fault seeming</li>
  <li>monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I prithee, recount some of them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">No, I will not cast away my physic but on those that</li>
  <li>are sick. There is a man haunts the forest, that</li>
  <li>abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on</li>
  <li>their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies</li>
  <li>on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of</li>
  <li class="number">Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger I would</li>
  <li>give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the</li>
  <li>quotidian of love upon him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you tell me</li>
  <li>your remedy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he</li>
  <li>taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage</li>
  <li>of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>What were his marks?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>A lean cheek, which you have not, a blue eye and</li>
  <li class="number">sunken, which you have not, an unquestionable</li>
  <li>spirit, which you have not, a beard neglected,</li>
  <li>which you have not; but I pardon you for that, for</li>
  <li>simply your having in beard is a younger brother's</li>
  <li>revenue: then your hose should be ungartered, your</li>
  <li class="number">bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe</li>
  <li>untied and every thing about you demonstrating a</li>
  <li>careless desolation; but you are no such man; you</li>
  <li>are rather point-device in your accoutrements as</li>
  <li>loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Me believe it! you may as soon make her that you</li>
  <li>love believe it; which, I warrant, she is apter to</li>
  <li>do than to confess she does: that is one of the</li>
  <li>points in the which women still give the lie to</li>
  <li class="number">their consciences. But, in good sooth, are you he</li>
  <li>that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind</li>
  <li>is so admired?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of</li>
  <li>Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves</li>
  <li>as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and</li>
  <li>the reason why they are not so punished and cured</li>
  <li class="number">is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers</li>
  <li>are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Did you ever cure any so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to imagine me</li>
  <li>his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to</li>
  <li class="number">woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish</li>
  <li>youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing</li>
  <li>and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow,</li>
  <li>inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles, for every</li>
  <li>passion something and for no passion truly any</li>
  <li class="number">thing, as boys and women are for the most part</li>
  <li>cattle of this colour; would now like him, now loathe</li>
  <li>him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep</li>
  <li>for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor</li>
  <li>from his mad humour of love to a living humour of</li>
  <li class="number">madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of</li>
  <li>the world, and to live in a nook merely monastic.</li>
  <li>And thus I cured him; and this way will I take upon</li>
  <li>me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's</li>
  <li>heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in't.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">I would not be cured, youth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind</li>
  <li>and come every day to my cote and woo me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Now, by the faith of my love, I will: tell me</li>
  <li>where it is.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Go with me to it and I'll show it you and by the way</li>
  <li>you shall tell me where in the forest you live.</li>
  <li>Will you go?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>With all my heart, good youth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Nay you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you go?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY; JAQUES behind</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Come apace, good Audrey: I will fetch up your</li>
  <li>goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey? am I the man yet?</li>
  <li>doth my simple feature content you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>Your features! Lord warrant us! what features!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most</li>
  <li>capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Aside  O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove</li>
  <li>in a thatched house!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a</li>
  <li class="number">man's good wit seconded with the forward child</li>
  <li>Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a</li>
  <li>great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would</li>
  <li>the gods had made thee poetical.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>I do not know what 'poetical' is: is it honest in</li>
  <li class="number">deed and word? is it a true thing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most</li>
  <li>feigning; and lovers are given to poetry, and what</li>
  <li>they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>Do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">I do, truly; for thou swearest to me thou art</li>
  <li>honest: now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some</li>
  <li>hope thou didst feign.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>Would you not have me honest?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for</li>
  <li class="number">honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Aside  A material fool!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods</li>
  <li>make me honest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut</li>
  <li class="number">were to put good meat into an unclean dish.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness!</li>
  <li>sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may</li>
  <li>be, I will marry thee, and to that end I have been</li>
  <li class="number">with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next</li>
  <li>village, who hath promised to meet me in this place</li>
  <li>of the forest and to couple us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Aside  I would fain see this meeting.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>Well, the gods give us joy!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart,</li>
  <li>stagger in this attempt; for here we have no temple</li>
  <li>but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what</li>
  <li>though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are</li>
  <li>necessary. It is said, 'many a man knows no end of</li>
  <li class="number">his goods:' right; many a man has good horns, and</li>
  <li>knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of</li>
  <li>his wife; 'tis none of his own getting. Horns?</li>
  <li>Even so. Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer</li>
  <li>hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man</li>
  <li class="number">therefore blessed? No: as a walled town is more</li>
  <li>worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a</li>
  <li>married man more honourable than the bare brow of a</li>
  <li>bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no</li>
  <li>skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to</li>
  <li class="number">want. Here comes Sir Oliver.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT</li>
  <li>Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met: will you</li>
  <li>dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go</li>
  <li>with you to your chapel?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR OLIVER MARTEXT</li>
  <li>Is there none here to give the woman?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">I will not take her on gift of any man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR OLIVER MARTEXT</li>
  <li>Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Advancing</li>
  <li>Proceed, proceed I'll give her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Good even, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you,</li>
  <li class="number">sir? You are very well met: God 'ild you for your</li>
  <li>last company: I am very glad to see you: even a</li>
  <li>toy in hand here, sir: nay, pray be covered.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Will you be married, motley?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and</li>
  <li class="number">the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and</li>
  <li>as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>And will you, being a man of your breeding, be</li>
  <li>married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to</li>
  <li>church, and have a good priest that can tell you</li>
  <li class="number">what marriage is: this fellow will but join you</li>
  <li>together as they join wainscot; then one of you will</li>
  <li>prove a shrunk panel and, like green timber, warp, warp.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Aside  I am not in the mind but I were better to be</li>
  <li>married of him than of another: for he is not like</li>
  <li class="number">to marry me well; and not being well married, it</li>
  <li>will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>'Come, sweet Audrey:</li>
  <li>We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.</li>
  <li class="number">Farewell, good Master Oliver: not —  </li>
  <li>O sweet Oliver,</li>
  <li>O brave Oliver,</li>
  <li>Leave me not behind thee: but —  </li>
  <li>Wind away,</li>
  <li class="number">Begone, I say,</li>
  <li>I will not to wedding with thee.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt JAQUES, TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SIR OLIVER MARTEXT</li>
  <li>'Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them</li>
  <li>all shall flout me out of my calling.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ROSALIND and CELIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Never talk to me; I will weep.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Do, I prithee; but yet have the grace to consider</li>
  <li>that tears do not become a man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>But have I not cause to weep?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>His very hair is of the dissembling colour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Something browner than Judas's marry, his kisses are</li>
  <li>Judas's own children.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch</li>
  <li>of holy bread.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun</li>
  <li>of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously;</li>
  <li class="number">the very ice of chastity is in them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>But why did he swear he would come this morning, and</li>
  <li>comes not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Do you think so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a</li>
  <li>horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do</li>
  <li>think him as concave as a covered goblet or a</li>
  <li>worm-eaten nut.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Not true in love?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>You have heard him swear downright he was.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>'Was' is not 'is:' besides, the oath of a lover is</li>
  <li>no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are</li>
  <li>both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends</li>
  <li class="number">here in the forest on the duke your father.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I met the duke yesterday and had much question with</li>
  <li>him: he asked me of what parentage I was; I told</li>
  <li>him, of as good as he; so he laughed and let me go.</li>
  <li>But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a</li>
  <li class="number">man as Orlando?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses,</li>
  <li>speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks</li>
  <li>them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of</li>
  <li>his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse</li>
  <li class="number">but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble</li>
  <li>goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly</li>
  <li>guides. Who comes here?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CORIN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Mistress and master, you have oft inquired</li>
  <li>After the shepherd that complain'd of love,</li>
  <li class="number">Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,</li>
  <li>Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess</li>
  <li>That was his mistress.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Well, and what of him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>If you will see a pageant truly play'd,</li>
  <li class="number">Between the pale complexion of true love</li>
  <li>And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,</li>
  <li>Go hence a little and I shall conduct you,</li>
  <li>If you will mark it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>O, come, let us remove:</li>
  <li class="number">The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.</li>
  <li>Bring us to this sight, and you shall say</li>
  <li>I'll prove a busy actor in their play.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  Another part of the forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe;</li>
  <li>Say that you love me not, but say not so</li>
  <li>In bitterness. The common executioner,</li>
  <li>Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard,</li>
  <li class="number">Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck</li>
  <li>But first begs pardon: will you sterner be</li>
  <li>Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and CORIN, behind</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>I would not be thy executioner:</li>
  <li>I fly thee, for I would not injure thee.</li>
  <li class="number">Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye:</li>
  <li>'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,</li>
  <li>That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,</li>
  <li>Who shut their coward gates on atomies,</li>
  <li>Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!</li>
  <li class="number">Now I do frown on thee with all my heart;</li>
  <li>And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee:</li>
  <li>Now counterfeit to swoon; why now fall down;</li>
  <li>Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,</li>
  <li>Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers!</li>
  <li class="number">Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee:</li>
  <li>Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains</li>
  <li>Some scar of it; lean but upon a rush,</li>
  <li>The cicatrice and capable impressure</li>
  <li>Thy palm some moment keeps; but now mine eyes,</li>
  <li class="number">Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not,</li>
  <li>Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes</li>
  <li>That can do hurt.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>O dear Phebe,</li>
  <li>If ever —  as that ever may be near —  </li>
  <li class="number">You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,</li>
  <li>Then shall you know the wounds invisible</li>
  <li>That love's keen arrows make.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>But till that time</li>
  <li>Come not thou near me: and when that time comes,</li>
  <li class="number">Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not;</li>
  <li>As till that time I shall not pity thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother,</li>
  <li>That you insult, exult, and all at once,</li>
  <li>Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty —  </li>
  <li class="number">As, by my faith, I see no more in you</li>
  <li>Than without candle may go dark to bed — </li>
  <li>Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?</li>
  <li>Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?</li>
  <li>I see no more in you than in the ordinary</li>
  <li class="number">Of nature's sale-work. 'Od's my little life,</li>
  <li>I think she means to tangle my eyes too!</li>
  <li>No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it:</li>
  <li>'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,</li>
  <li>Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,</li>
  <li class="number">That can entame my spirits to your worship.</li>
  <li>You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,</li>
  <li>Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain?</li>
  <li>You are a thousand times a properer man</li>
  <li>Than she a woman: 'tis such fools as you</li>
  <li class="number">That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children:</li>
  <li>'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her;</li>
  <li>And out of you she sees herself more proper</li>
  <li>Than any of her lineaments can show her.</li>
  <li>But, mistress, know yourself: down on your knees,</li>
  <li class="number">And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love:</li>
  <li>For I must tell you friendly in your ear,</li>
  <li>Sell when you can: you are not for all markets:</li>
  <li>Cry the man mercy; love him; take his offer:</li>
  <li>Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer.</li>
  <li class="number">So take her to thee, shepherd: fare you well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Sweet youth, I pray you, chide a year together:</li>
  <li>I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>He's fallen in love with your foulness and she'll</li>
  <li>fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as</li>
  <li class="number">she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her</li>
  <li>with bitter words. Why look you so upon me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>For no ill will I bear you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I pray you, do not fall in love with me,</li>
  <li>For I am falser than vows made in wine:</li>
  <li class="number">Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,</li>
  <li>'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.</li>
  <li>Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard.</li>
  <li>Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better,</li>
  <li>And be not proud: though all the world could see,</li>
  <li class="number">None could be so abused in sight as he.</li>
  <li>Come, to our flock.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt ROSALIND, CELIA and CORIN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,</li>
  <li>'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Sweet Phebe —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li class="number">Ha, what say'st thou, Silvius?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Sweet Phebe, pity me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Wherever sorrow is, relief would be:</li>
  <li>If you do sorrow at my grief in love,</li>
  <li class="number">By giving love your sorrow and my grief</li>
  <li>Were both extermined.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Thou hast my love: is not that neighbourly?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>I would have you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Why, that were covetousness.</li>
  <li class="number">Silvius, the time was that I hated thee,</li>
  <li>And yet it is not that I bear thee love;</li>
  <li>But since that thou canst talk of love so well,</li>
  <li>Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,</li>
  <li>I will endure, and I'll employ thee too:</li>
  <li class="number">But do not look for further recompense</li>
  <li>Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>So holy and so perfect is my love,</li>
  <li>And I in such a poverty of grace,</li>
  <li>That I shall think it a most plenteous crop</li>
  <li class="number">To glean the broken ears after the man</li>
  <li>That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then</li>
  <li>A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Know'st now the youth that spoke to me erewhile?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Not very well, but I have met him oft;</li>
  <li class="number">And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds</li>
  <li>That the old carlot once was master of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Think not I love him, though I ask for him:</li>
  <li>'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well;</li>
  <li>But what care I for words? yet words do well</li>
  <li class="number">When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.</li>
  <li>It is a pretty youth: not very pretty:</li>
  <li>But, sure, he's proud, and yet his pride becomes him:</li>
  <li>He'll make a proper man: the best thing in him</li>
  <li>Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue</li>
  <li class="number">Did make offence his eye did heal it up.</li>
  <li>He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall:</li>
  <li>His leg is but so so; and yet 'tis well:</li>
  <li>There was a pretty redness in his lip,</li>
  <li>A little riper and more lusty red</li>
  <li class="number">Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference</li>
  <li>Between the constant red and mingled damask.</li>
  <li>There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him</li>
  <li>In parcels as I did, would have gone near</li>
  <li>To fall in love with him; but, for my part,</li>
  <li class="number">I love him not nor hate him not; and yet</li>
  <li>I have more cause to hate him than to love him:</li>
  <li>For what had he to do to chide at me?</li>
  <li>He said mine eyes were black and my hair black:</li>
  <li>And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me:</li>
  <li class="number">I marvel why I answer'd not again:</li>
  <li>But that's all one; omittance is no quittance.</li>
  <li>I'll write to him a very taunting letter,</li>
  <li>And thou shalt bear it: wilt thou, Silvius?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Phebe, with all my heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li class="number">I'll write it straight;</li>
  <li>The matter's in my head and in my heart:</li>
  <li>I will be bitter with him and passing short.</li>
  <li>Go with me, Silvius.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT IV</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted</li>
  <li>with thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>They say you are a melancholy fellow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>I am so; I do love it better than laughing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Those that are in extremity of either are abominable</li>
  <li>fellows and betray themselves to every modern</li>
  <li>censure worse than drunkards.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Why then, 'tis good to be a post.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is</li>
  <li>emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical,</li>
  <li>nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the</li>
  <li>soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's,</li>
  <li>which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor</li>
  <li class="number">the lover's, which is all these: but it is a</li>
  <li>melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,</li>
  <li>extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's</li>
  <li>contemplation of my travels, in which my often</li>
  <li>rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to</li>
  <li>be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see</li>
  <li>other men's; then, to have seen much and to have</li>
  <li>nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Yes, I have gained my experience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have</li>
  <li>a fool to make me merry than experience to make me</li>
  <li>sad; and to travel for it too!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ORLANDO</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and</li>
  <li>wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your</li>
  <li>own country, be out of love with your nativity and</li>
  <li>almost chide God for making you that countenance you</li>
  <li>are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a</li>
  <li class="number">gondola. Why, how now, Orlando! where have you been</li>
  <li>all this while? You a lover! An you serve me such</li>
  <li>another trick, never come in my sight more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Break an hour's promise in love! He that will</li>
  <li class="number">divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but</li>
  <li>a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the</li>
  <li>affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid</li>
  <li>hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant</li>
  <li>him heart-whole.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">Pardon me, dear Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I</li>
  <li>had as lief be wooed of a snail.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Of a snail?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he</li>
  <li class="number">carries his house on his head; a better jointure,</li>
  <li>I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings</li>
  <li>his destiny with him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>What's that?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be</li>
  <li class="number">beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in</li>
  <li>his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Virtue is no horn-maker; and my Rosalind is virtuous.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>And I am your Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>It pleases him to call you so; but he hath a</li>
  <li class="number">Rosalind of a better leer than you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday</li>
  <li>humour and like enough to consent. What would you</li>
  <li>say to me now, an I were your very very Rosalind?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I would kiss before I spoke.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were</li>
  <li>gravelled for lack of matter, you might take</li>
  <li>occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are</li>
  <li>out, they will spit; and for lovers lacking — God</li>
  <li>warn us! — matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">How if the kiss be denied?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress, or</li>
  <li>I should think my honesty ranker than my wit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">What, of my suit?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit.</li>
  <li>Am not I your Rosalind?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I take some joy to say you are, because I would be</li>
  <li>talking of her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Well in her person I say I will not have you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Then in mine own person I die.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is</li>
  <li>almost six thousand years old, and in all this time</li>
  <li>there was not any man died in his own person,</li>
  <li class="number">videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains</li>
  <li>dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he</li>
  <li>could to die before, and he is one of the patterns</li>
  <li>of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair</li>
  <li>year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been</li>
  <li class="number">for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went</li>
  <li>but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being</li>
  <li>taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish</li>
  <li>coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.'</li>
  <li>But these are all lies: men have died from time to</li>
  <li class="number">time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind,</li>
  <li>for, I protest, her frown might kill me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now</li>
  <li>I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on</li>
  <li class="number">disposition, and ask me what you will. I will grant</li>
  <li>it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Then love me, Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and all.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>And wilt thou have me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, and twenty such.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>What sayest thou?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Are you not good?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I hope so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?</li>
  <li class="number">Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us.</li>
  <li>Give me your hand, Orlando. What do you say, sister?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Pray thee, marry us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I cannot say the words.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>You must begin, 'Will you, Orlando — '</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Ay, but when?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Why now; as fast as she can marry us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I might ask you for your commission; but I do take</li>
  <li>thee, Orlando, for my husband: there's a girl goes</li>
  <li>before the priest; and certainly a woman's thought</li>
  <li>runs before her actions.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">So do all thoughts; they are winged.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Now tell me how long you would have her after you</li>
  <li>have possessed her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>For ever and a day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando;</li>
  <li class="number">men are April when they woo, December when they wed:</li>
  <li>maids are May when they are maids, but the sky</li>
  <li>changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous</li>
  <li>of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,</li>
  <li>more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more</li>
  <li class="number">new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires</li>
  <li>than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana</li>
  <li>in the fountain, and I will do that when you are</li>
  <li>disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and</li>
  <li>that when thou art inclined to sleep.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">But will my Rosalind do so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>By my life, she will do as I do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>O, but she is wise.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the</li>
  <li>wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's</li>
  <li class="number">wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and</li>
  <li>'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly</li>
  <li>with the smoke out at the chimney.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say</li>
  <li>'Wit, whither wilt?'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, you might keep that cheque for it till you met</li>
  <li>your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>And what wit could wit have to excuse that?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall</li>
  <li>never take her without her answer, unless you take</li>
  <li class="number">her without her tongue. O, that woman that cannot</li>
  <li>make her fault her husband's occasion, let her</li>
  <li>never nurse her child herself, for she will breed</li>
  <li>it like a fool!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I must attend the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I</li>
  <li>will be with thee again.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew what you</li>
  <li>would prove: my friends told me as much, and I</li>
  <li class="number">thought no less: that flattering tongue of yours</li>
  <li>won me: 'tis but one cast away, and so, come,</li>
  <li>death! Two o'clock is your hour?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Ay, sweet Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend</li>
  <li class="number">me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous,</li>
  <li>if you break one jot of your promise or come one</li>
  <li>minute behind your hour, I will think you the most</li>
  <li>pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover</li>
  <li>and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind that</li>
  <li class="number">may be chosen out of the gross band of the</li>
  <li>unfaithful: therefore beware my censure and keep</li>
  <li>your promise.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my</li>
  <li>Rosalind: so adieu.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such</li>
  <li>offenders, and let Time try: adieu.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit ORLANDO</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate:</li>
  <li>we must have your doublet and hose plucked over your</li>
  <li>head, and show the world what the bird hath done to</li>
  <li class="number">her own nest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou</li>
  <li>didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But</li>
  <li>it cannot be sounded: my affection hath an unknown</li>
  <li>bottom, like the bay of Portugal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour</li>
  <li>affection in, it runs out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>No, that same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot</li>
  <li>of thought, conceived of spleen and born of madness,</li>
  <li>that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes</li>
  <li class="number">because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I</li>
  <li>am in love. I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out</li>
  <li>of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a shadow and</li>
  <li>sigh till he come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>And I'll sleep.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter JAQUES, Lords, and Foresters</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Which is he that killed the deer?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">A Lord</li>
  <li>Sir, it was I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman</li>
  <li>conqueror; and it would do well to set the deer's</li>
  <li class="number">horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have</li>
  <li>you no song, forester, for this purpose?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Forester</li>
  <li>Yes, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it</li>
  <li>make noise enough.</li>
</ol>

<h4 class="scene-subhead">SONG.</h4>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Forester</li>
  <li class="number">What shall he have that kill'd the deer?</li>
  <li>His leather skin and horns to wear.</li>
  <li>Then sing him home;</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">The rest shall bear this burden</li>
  <li>Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;</li>
  <li>It was a crest ere thou wast born:</li>
  <li class="number">Thy father's father wore it,</li>
  <li>And thy father bore it:</li>
  <li>The horn, the horn, the lusty horn</li>
  <li>Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ROSALIND and CELIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? and</li>
  <li>here much Orlando!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he</li>
  <li>hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to</li>
  <li class="number">sleep. Look, who comes here.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter SILVIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>My errand is to you, fair youth;</li>
  <li>My gentle Phebe bid me give you this:</li>
  <li>I know not the contents; but, as I guess</li>
  <li>By the stern brow and waspish action</li>
  <li class="number">Which she did use as she was writing of it,</li>
  <li>It bears an angry tenor: pardon me:</li>
  <li>I am but as a guiltless messenger.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Patience herself would startle at this letter</li>
  <li>And play the swaggerer; bear this, bear all:</li>
  <li class="number">She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;</li>
  <li>She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,</li>
  <li>Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will!</li>
  <li>Her love is not the hare that I do hunt:</li>
  <li>Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,</li>
  <li class="number">This is a letter of your own device.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>No, I protest, I know not the contents:</li>
  <li>Phebe did write it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Come, come, you are a fool</li>
  <li>And turn'd into the extremity of love.</li>
  <li class="number">I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand.</li>
  <li>A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think</li>
  <li>That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands:</li>
  <li>She has a huswife's hand; but that's no matter:</li>
  <li>I say she never did invent this letter;</li>
  <li class="number">This is a man's invention and his hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Sure, it is hers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style.</li>
  <li>A style for-challengers; why, she defies me,</li>
  <li>Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain</li>
  <li class="number">Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention</li>
  <li>Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect</li>
  <li>Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>So please you, for I never heard it yet;</li>
  <li>Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Reads</li>
  <li>Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,</li>
  <li>That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?</li>
  <li>Can a woman rail thus?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Call you this railing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Reads</li>
  <li>Why, thy godhead laid apart,</li>
  <li>Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?</li>
  <li>Did you ever hear such railing?</li>
  <li>Whiles the eye of man did woo me,</li>
  <li class="number">That could do no vengeance to me.</li>
  <li>Meaning me a beast.</li>
  <li>If the scorn of your bright eyne</li>
  <li>Have power to raise such love in mine,</li>
  <li>Alack, in me what strange effect</li>
  <li class="number">Would they work in mild aspect!</li>
  <li>Whiles you chid me, I did love;</li>
  <li>How then might your prayers move!</li>
  <li>He that brings this love to thee</li>
  <li>Little knows this love in me:</li>
  <li class="number">And by him seal up thy mind;</li>
  <li>Whether that thy youth and kind</li>
  <li>Will the faithful offer take</li>
  <li>Of me and all that I can make;</li>
  <li>Or else by him my love deny,</li>
  <li class="number">And then I'll study how to die.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Call you this chiding?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Alas, poor shepherd!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Do you pity him? no, he deserves no pity. Wilt</li>
  <li>thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an</li>
  <li class="number">instrument and play false strains upon thee! not to</li>
  <li>be endured! Well, go your way to her, for I see</li>
  <li>love hath made thee a tame snake, and say this to</li>
  <li>her: that if she love me, I charge her to love</li>
  <li>thee; if she will not, I will never have her unless</li>
  <li class="number">thou entreat for her. If you be a true lover,</li>
  <li>hence, and not a word; for here comes more company.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit SILVIUS</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OLIVER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, if you know,</li>
  <li>Where in the purlieus of this forest stands</li>
  <li>A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom:</li>
  <li>The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream</li>
  <li>Left on your right hand brings you to the place.</li>
  <li>But at this hour the house doth keep itself;</li>
  <li>There's none within.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">If that an eye may profit by a tongue,</li>
  <li>Then should I know you by description;</li>
  <li>Such garments and such years: 'The boy is fair,</li>
  <li>Of female favour, and bestows himself</li>
  <li>Like a ripe sister: the woman low</li>
  <li class="number">And browner than her brother.' Are not you</li>
  <li>The owner of the house I did inquire for?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Orlando doth commend him to you both,</li>
  <li>And to that youth he calls his Rosalind</li>
  <li class="number">He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I am: what must we understand by this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Some of my shame; if you will know of me</li>
  <li>What man I am, and how, and why, and where</li>
  <li>This handkercher was stain'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">I pray you, tell it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>When last the young Orlando parted from you</li>
  <li>He left a promise to return again</li>
  <li>Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,</li>
  <li>Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,</li>
  <li class="number">Lo, what befell! he threw his eye aside,</li>
  <li>And mark what object did present itself:</li>
  <li>Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age</li>
  <li>And high top bald with dry antiquity,</li>
  <li>A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,</li>
  <li class="number">Lay sleeping on his back: about his neck</li>
  <li>A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,</li>
  <li>Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd</li>
  <li>The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,</li>
  <li>Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,</li>
  <li class="number">And with indented glides did slip away</li>
  <li>Into a bush: under which bush's shade</li>
  <li>A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,</li>
  <li>Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,</li>
  <li>When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis</li>
  <li class="number">The royal disposition of that beast</li>
  <li>To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead:</li>
  <li>This seen, Orlando did approach the man</li>
  <li>And found it was his brother, his elder brother.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>O, I have heard him speak of that same brother;</li>
  <li class="number">And he did render him the most unnatural</li>
  <li>That lived amongst men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>And well he might so do,</li>
  <li>For well I know he was unnatural.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,</li>
  <li class="number">Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Twice did he turn his back and purposed so;</li>
  <li>But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,</li>
  <li>And nature, stronger than his just occasion,</li>
  <li>Made him give battle to the lioness,</li>
  <li class="number">Who quickly fell before him: in which hurtling</li>
  <li>From miserable slumber I awaked.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Are you his brother?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Wast you he rescued?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">'Twas I; but 'tis not I I do not shame</li>
  <li>To tell you what I was, since my conversion</li>
  <li>So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>But, for the bloody napkin?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>By and by.</li>
  <li class="number">When from the first to last betwixt us two</li>
  <li>Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed,</li>
  <li>As how I came into that desert place: — </li>
  <li>In brief, he led me to the gentle duke,</li>
  <li>Who gave me fresh array and entertainment,</li>
  <li class="number">Committing me unto my brother's love;</li>
  <li>Who led me instantly unto his cave,</li>
  <li>There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm</li>
  <li>The lioness had torn some flesh away,</li>
  <li>Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted</li>
  <li class="number">And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind.</li>
  <li>Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound;</li>
  <li>And, after some small space, being strong at heart,</li>
  <li>He sent me hither, stranger as I am,</li>
  <li>To tell this story, that you might excuse</li>
  <li class="number">His broken promise, and to give this napkin</li>
  <li>Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth</li>
  <li>That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">ROSALIND swoons</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Many will swoon when they do look on blood.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li class="number">There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Look, he recovers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I would I were at home.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>We'll lead you thither.</li>
  <li>I pray you, will you take him by the arm?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">Be of good cheer, youth: you a man! you lack a</li>
  <li>man's heart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would</li>
  <li>think this was well counterfeited! I pray you, tell</li>
  <li>your brother how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">This was not counterfeit: there is too great</li>
  <li>testimony in your complexion that it was a passion</li>
  <li>of earnest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Counterfeit, I assure you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">So I do: but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by right.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CELIA</li>
  <li>Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw</li>
  <li>homewards. Good sir, go with us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>That will I, for I must bear answer back</li>
  <li>How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend</li>
  <li>my counterfeiting to him. Will you go?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT V</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old</li>
  <li>gentleman's saying.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile</li>
  <li class="number">Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the</li>
  <li>forest lays claim to you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in</li>
  <li>the world: here comes the man you mean.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my</li>
  <li class="number">troth, we that have good wits have much to answer</li>
  <li>for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter WILLIAM</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>Good even, Audrey.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>God ye good even, William.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>And good even to you, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy</li>
  <li>head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>Five and twenty, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>A ripe age. Is thy name William?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>William, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>Ay, sir, I thank God.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>Faith, sir, so so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and</li>
  <li class="number">yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying,</li>
  <li>'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man</li>
  <li>knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen</li>
  <li class="number">philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape,</li>
  <li>would open his lips when he put it into his mouth;</li>
  <li>meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and</li>
  <li>lips to open. You do love this maid?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>I do, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">Give me your hand. Art thou learned?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>No, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it</li>
  <li>is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out</li>
  <li>of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty</li>
  <li class="number">the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse</li>
  <li>is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>Which he, sir?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you</li>
  <li>clown, abandon —  which is in the vulgar leave —  the</li>
  <li class="number">society —  which in the boorish is company —  of this</li>
  <li>female —  which in the common is woman; which</li>
  <li>together is, abandon the society of this female, or,</li>
  <li>clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better</li>
  <li>understanding, diest; or, to wit I kill thee, make</li>
  <li class="number">thee away, translate thy life into death, thy</li>
  <li>liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with</li>
  <li>thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy</li>
  <li>with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with</li>
  <li>policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways:</li>
  <li class="number">therefore tremble and depart.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>Do, good William.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">WILLIAM</li>
  <li>God rest you merry, sir.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CORIN</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CORIN</li>
  <li>Our master and mistress seeks you; come, away, away!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you</li>
  <li>should like her? that but seeing you should love</li>
  <li>her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should</li>
  <li>grant? and will you persever to enjoy her?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li class="number">Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the</li>
  <li>poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden</li>
  <li>wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me,</li>
  <li>I love Aliena; say with her that she loves me;</li>
  <li>consent with both that we may enjoy each other: it</li>
  <li class="number">shall be to your good; for my father's house and all</li>
  <li>the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I</li>
  <li>estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow:</li>
  <li>thither will I invite the duke and all's contented</li>
  <li class="number">followers. Go you and prepare Aliena; for look</li>
  <li>you, here comes my Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ROSALIND</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>God save you, brother.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OLIVER</li>
  <li>And you, fair sister.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee</li>
  <li class="number">wear thy heart in a scarf!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>It is my arm.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws</li>
  <li>of a lion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to</li>
  <li>swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Ay, and greater wonders than that.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was</li>
  <li>never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams</li>
  <li class="number">and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and</li>
  <li>overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner</li>
  <li>met but they looked, no sooner looked but they</li>
  <li>loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner</li>
  <li>sighed but they asked one another the reason, no</li>
  <li class="number">sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;</li>
  <li>and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs</li>
  <li>to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or</li>
  <li>else be incontinent before marriage: they are in</li>
  <li>the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs</li>
  <li class="number">cannot part them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the</li>
  <li>duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it</li>
  <li>is to look into happiness through another man's</li>
  <li>eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at</li>
  <li class="number">the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall</li>
  <li>think my brother happy in having what he wishes for.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I can live no longer by thinking.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I will weary you then no longer with idle talking.</li>
  <li class="number">Know of me then, for now I speak to some purpose,</li>
  <li>that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit: I</li>
  <li>speak not this that you should bear a good opinion</li>
  <li>of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are;</li>
  <li>neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in</li>
  <li class="number">some little measure draw a belief from you, to do</li>
  <li>yourself good and not to grace me. Believe then, if</li>
  <li>you please, that I can do strange things: I have,</li>
  <li>since I was three year old, conversed with a</li>
  <li>magician, most profound in his art and yet not</li>
  <li class="number">damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart</li>
  <li>as your gesture cries it out, when your brother</li>
  <li>marries Aliena, shall you marry her: I know into</li>
  <li>what straits of fortune she is driven; and it is</li>
  <li>not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient</li>
  <li class="number">to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human</li>
  <li>as she is and without any danger.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Speakest thou in sober meanings?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I</li>
  <li>say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your</li>
  <li class="number">best array: bid your friends; for if you will be</li>
  <li>married to-morrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE</li>
  <li>Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,</li>
  <li>To show the letter that I writ to you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">I care not if I have: it is my study</li>
  <li>To seem despiteful and ungentle to you:</li>
  <li>You are there followed by a faithful shepherd;</li>
  <li>Look upon him, love him; he worships you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">It is to be all made of sighs and tears;</li>
  <li>And so am I for Phebe.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>And I for Ganymede.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>And I for Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>And I for no woman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">It is to be all made of faith and service;</li>
  <li>And so am I for Phebe.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>And I for Ganymede.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>And I for Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>And I for no woman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">It is to be all made of fantasy,</li>
  <li>All made of passion and all made of wishes,</li>
  <li>All adoration, duty, and observance,</li>
  <li>All humbleness, all patience and impatience,</li>
  <li>All purity, all trial, all observance;</li>
  <li class="number">And so am I for Phebe.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>And so am I for Ganymede.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>And so am I for Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>And so am I for no woman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>If this be so, why blame you me to love you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">If this be so, why blame you me to love you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>If this be so, why blame you me to love you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Who do you speak to, 'Why blame you me to love you?'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling</li>
  <li class="number">of Irish wolves against the moon.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To SILVIUS</li>
  <li>I will help you, if I can:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To PHEBE</li>
  <li>I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To PHEBE</li>
  <li>I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be</li>
  <li>married to-morrow:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you</li>
  <li>shall be married to-morrow:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To SILVIUS</li>
  <li>I will content you, if what pleases you contents</li>
  <li>you, and you shall be married to-morrow.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To ORLANDO</li>
  <li>As you love Rosalind, meet:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To SILVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">as you love Phebe, meet: and as I love no woman,</li>
  <li>I'll meet. So fare you well: I have left you commands.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>I'll not fail, if I live.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>Nor I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>Nor I.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will</li>
  <li>we be married.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">AUDREY</li>
  <li>I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is</li>
  <li>no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the</li>
  <li class="number">world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter two Pages</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Page</li>
  <li>Well met, honest gentleman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Page</li>
  <li>We are for you: sit i' the middle.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Page</li>
  <li>Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or</li>
  <li class="number">spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only</li>
  <li>prologues to a bad voice?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Page</li>
  <li>I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two</li>
  <li>gipsies on a horse.</li>
  <li class="subhead">SONG.</li>
  <li>It was a lover and his lass,</li>
  <li class="number">With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,</li>
  <li>That o'er the green corn-field did pass</li>
  <li>In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,</li>
  <li>When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:</li>
  <li>Sweet lovers love the spring.</li>
  <li class="number">Between the acres of the rye,</li>
  <li>With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino</li>
  <li>These pretty country folks would lie,</li>
  <li>In spring time, &c.</li>
  <li>This carol they began that hour,</li>
  <li class="number">With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,</li>
  <li>How that a life was but a flower</li>
  <li>In spring time, &c.</li>
  <li>And therefore take the present time,</li>
  <li>With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;</li>
  <li class="number">For love is crowned with the prime</li>
  <li>In spring time, &c.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great</li>
  <li>matter in the ditty, yet the note was very</li>
  <li>untuneable.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Page</li>
  <li class="number">You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear</li>
  <li>such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend</li>
  <li>your voices! Come, Audrey.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  The forest.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER,
and CELIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy</li>
  <li>Can do all this that he hath promised?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not;</li>
  <li>As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged:</li>
  <li>You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,</li>
  <li>You will bestow her on Orlando here?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>And you say, you will have her, when I bring her?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li class="number">That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>That will I, should I die the hour after.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>But if you do refuse to marry me,</li>
  <li>You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li class="number">So is the bargain.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>You say, that you'll have Phebe, if she will?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">SILVIUS</li>
  <li>Though to have her and death were both one thing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I have promised to make all this matter even.</li>
  <li>Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter;</li>
  <li class="number">You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter:</li>
  <li>Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,</li>
  <li>Or else refusing me, to wed this shepherd:</li>
  <li>Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her.</li>
  <li>If she refuse me: and from hence I go,</li>
  <li class="number">To make these doubts all even.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>I do remember in this shepherd boy</li>
  <li>Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>My lord, the first time that I ever saw him</li>
  <li>Methought he was a brother to your daughter:</li>
  <li class="number">But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,</li>
  <li>And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments</li>
  <li>Of many desperate studies by his uncle,</li>
  <li>Whom he reports to be a great magician,</li>
  <li>Obscured in the circle of this forest.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">There is, sure, another flood toward, and these</li>
  <li>couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of</li>
  <li>very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Salutation and greeting to you all!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the</li>
  <li class="number">motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in</li>
  <li>the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>If any man doubt that, let him put me to my</li>
  <li>purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flattered</li>
  <li>a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth</li>
  <li class="number">with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have</li>
  <li>had four quarrels, and like to have fought one.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>And how was that ta'en up?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the</li>
  <li>seventh cause.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>I like him very well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I</li>
  <li>press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country</li>
  <li>copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as</li>
  <li class="number">marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin,</li>
  <li>sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor</li>
  <li>humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else</li>
  <li>will: rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a</li>
  <li>poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>But, for the seventh cause; how did you find the</li>
  <li>quarrel on the seventh cause?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>Upon a lie seven times removed: — bear your body more</li>
  <li class="number">seeming, Audrey: — as thus, sir. I did dislike the</li>
  <li>cut of a certain courtier's beard: he sent me word,</li>
  <li>if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the</li>
  <li>mind it was: this is called the Retort Courteous.</li>
  <li>If I sent him word again 'it was not well cut,' he</li>
  <li class="number">would send me word, he cut it to please himself:</li>
  <li>this is called the Quip Modest. If again 'it was</li>
  <li>not well cut,' he disabled my judgment: this is</li>
  <li>called the Reply Churlish. If again 'it was not</li>
  <li>well cut,' he would answer, I spake not true: this</li>
  <li class="number">is called the Reproof Valiant. If again 'it was not</li>
  <li>well cut,' he would say I lied: this is called the</li>
  <li>Counter-cheque Quarrelsome: and so to the Lie</li>
  <li>Circumstantial and the Lie Direct.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li class="number">I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial,</li>
  <li>nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we</li>
  <li>measured swords and parted.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have</li>
  <li class="number">books for good manners: I will name you the degrees.</li>
  <li>The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the</li>
  <li>Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the</li>
  <li>fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the</li>
  <li>Countercheque Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with</li>
  <li class="number">Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All</li>
  <li>these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may</li>
  <li>avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven</li>
  <li>justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the</li>
  <li>parties were met themselves, one of them thought but</li>
  <li class="number">of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and</li>
  <li>they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the</li>
  <li>only peacemaker; much virtue in If.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at</li>
  <li>any thing and yet a fool.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li class="number">He uses his folly like a stalking-horse and under</li>
  <li>the presentation of that he shoots his wit.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND, and CELIA</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Still Music</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HYMEN</li>
  <li>Then is there mirth in heaven,</li>
  <li>When earthly things made even</li>
  <li>Atone together.</li>
  <li class="number">Good duke, receive thy daughter</li>
  <li>Hymen from heaven brought her,</li>
  <li>Yea, brought her hither,</li>
  <li>That thou mightst join her hand with his</li>
  <li>Whose heart within his bosom is.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li class="number">To DUKE SENIOR  To you I give myself, for I am yours.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To ORLANDO</li>
  <li>To you I give myself, for I am yours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ORLANDO</li>
  <li>If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>If sight and shape be true,</li>
  <li class="number">Why then, my love adieu!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ROSALIND</li>
  <li>I'll have no father, if you be not he:</li>
  <li>I'll have no husband, if you be not he:</li>
  <li>Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">HYMEN</li>
  <li>Peace, ho! I bar confusion:</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis I must make conclusion</li>
  <li>Of these most strange events:</li>
  <li>Here's eight that must take hands</li>
  <li>To join in Hymen's bands,</li>
  <li>If truth holds true contents.</li>
  <li class="number">You and you no cross shall part:</li>
  <li>You and you are heart in heart</li>
  <li>You to his love must accord,</li>
  <li>Or have a woman to your lord:</li>
  <li>You and you are sure together,</li>
  <li class="number">As the winter to foul weather.</li>
  <li>Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,</li>
  <li>Feed yourselves with questioning;</li>
  <li>That reason wonder may diminish,</li>
  <li>How thus we met, and these things finish.</li>
  <li class="subhead">SONG.</li>
  <li class="number">Wedding is great Juno's crown:</li>
  <li>O blessed bond of board and bed!</li>
  <li>'Tis Hymen peoples every town;</li>
  <li>High wedlock then be honoured:</li>
  <li>Honour, high honour and renown,</li>
  <li class="number">To Hymen, god of every town!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me!</li>
  <li>Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PHEBE</li>
  <li>I will not eat my word, now thou art mine;</li>
  <li>Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter JAQUES DE BOYS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES DE BOYS</li>
  <li class="number">Let me have audience for a word or two:</li>
  <li>I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,</li>
  <li>That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.</li>
  <li>Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day</li>
  <li>Men of great worth resorted to this forest,</li>
  <li class="number">Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot,</li>
  <li>In his own conduct, purposely to take</li>
  <li>His brother here and put him to the sword:</li>
  <li>And to the skirts of this wild wood he came;</li>
  <li>Where meeting with an old religious man,</li>
  <li class="number">After some question with him, was converted</li>
  <li>Both from his enterprise and from the world,</li>
  <li>His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,</li>
  <li>And all their lands restored to them again</li>
  <li>That were with him exiled. This to be true,</li>
  <li class="number">I do engage my life.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Welcome, young man;</li>
  <li>Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding:</li>
  <li>To one his lands withheld, and to the other</li>
  <li>A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.</li>
  <li class="number">First, in this forest, let us do those ends</li>
  <li>That here were well begun and well begot:</li>
  <li>And after, every of this happy number</li>
  <li>That have endured shrewd days and nights with us</li>
  <li>Shall share the good of our returned fortune,</li>
  <li class="number">According to the measure of their states.</li>
  <li>Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity</li>
  <li>And fall into our rustic revelry.</li>
  <li>Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all,</li>
  <li>With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,</li>
  <li>The duke hath put on a religious life</li>
  <li>And thrown into neglect the pompous court?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES DE BOYS</li>
  <li>He hath.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li>To him will I : out of these convertites</li>
  <li class="number">There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>You to your former honour I bequeath;</li>
  <li>Your patience and your virtue well deserves it:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To ORLANDO</li>
  <li>You to a love that your true faith doth merit:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To OLIVER</li>
  <li>You to your land and love and great allies:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To SILVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">You to a long and well-deserved bed:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To TOUCHSTONE</li>
  <li>And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage</li>
  <li>Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures:</li>
  <li>I am for other than for dancing measures.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Stay, Jaques, stay.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">JAQUES</li>
  <li class="number">To see no pastime I what you would have</li>
  <li>I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DUKE SENIOR</li>
  <li>Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites,</li>
  <li>As we do trust they'll end, in true delights.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">A dance</div>

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